Wenshi Bentun Tang (Wen's Running Piglet Decoction)

李可經驗方

Prepared Aconite 30–100–200 g, oil cinnamon 3–10 g, red ginseng (decocted separately) 10–30 g, agarwood and amomum 3–5 g, Chinese yam 30–60 g, Poria 30–45 g, Alisma 30 g, Huai Achyranthes 10–30 g, honey-fried Licorice 60 g.

For a small dose of Aconite, add 1500 ml cold water, decoct over gentle fire to obtain 600 ml, and take in 3 divided doses a day; for a large dose of Aconite, add 2500 ml cold water, decoct over gentle fire to obtain 750 ml, take 3 times in the day and once at night. If there is false heat above, take the warm medicine cold.

湯劑

Warmly nourish the true fire of the innate Mingmen, rescue the decline and loss of original Yang, and stabilize original Qi in collapse. Tonify fire to generate earth, transform dampness and awaken the spleen, tonify earth to control water, and reduce edema. Grasp qi to calm panting, peacefully nourish the Chong vessel; guide fire back to its origin, and subdue running piglet. Eliminate cold accumulations of the five zang, expel cold congelation of the six fu, remove cold bi of bones and vessels, break deep-seated cold and chronic cold, scatter cold and move qi to treat all pains.

Cold syndromes of the three yin of liver, spleen, and kidney; running piglet syndrome from reversed qi attacking upward; cold cholera with colicky pain in the epigastrium and abdomen; qi rushing upward against the flow, vomiting and diarrhea, reversal cold of the four limbs, and even painful reversal; cold hernia; edema and tympanites, etc. It can be applied to critically ill rheumatic heart disease.

For Kidney Yang deficiency with counterflow rushing upward, palpitations, and panting: add fluorite: 30. -- For kidney failing to grasp qi or kidney deficiency about to desert, panting, and dizziness: add magnetite: 30. -- For emergency rescue from sudden desertion: add Cornus officinalis: 90, fossilized dragon bone: 30, oyster shell: 30. -- For kidney deficiency: add goji berry: 15, dodder seed: 15, psoralea: 15, epimedium: 15. -- For exuberant cold in the liver and stomach, such as vomiting and dizziness: add Evodia: 15, fresh ginger: 30, jujube: 30. -- For blood deficiency: add Angelica sinensis: 15.